Joan Gamell, Engineering Manager

Technologist bred and fascinated by the web. Have years of experience in full stack technologies and made the jump to management while still hands-on when needed. Thrive in the mix of technical and leadership roles, looking at management from the problem solving perspective and striving to improve every day. Keep my tech skills up to date by "scratching my own itch" with a couple of open-source projects.

Engineering Manager at Expedia in San Francisco, July 2015 - present

Having hands-on technical skills in this managerial position helps me to successfully scale and lead an energetic team of engineers who own the whole stack and deploy to production daily following Continuous Deployment practices.

Tech Lead / Technical Project Manager at Expedia in San Francisco, October 2014 - July 2015

First role with people manager responsibilities in a small team of engineers where we owned the whole product and project.

Front-end Engineer at Expedia in Singapore, October 2012 - October 2014

Main front-end developer of a fully-responsive, high-traffic, highly-available e-commerce website: AirAsiaGo. Wsed kanban & Continuous Deployment methodologies and followed Clean Code practices.

Tech Lead at Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore, June 2012 - October 2012

Lead a team of 5 developers working on the front-end interface of RMWB (Relation Manager WorkBench) project for Standard Chartered Bank.

Our responsibility was to develop and ship the front-end of the application the customers would use.

Sr. Web Developer at Optimum Solutions in Singapore, January 2012 - June 2012

Worked on the RMWB (Relation Manager WorkBench) project for Standard Chartered Bank. My main contributions in this role where:

Analyst at Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria in Madrid, September 2010 - December 2011

Worked on the Mentor project at Wholesale Banking & Asset Management, Global Risk Unit. Mentor was a web-based project to integrate, unify, organize and report all the unit’s risk data from diverse systems with different data outputs.

Developer at Safelayer Secure Communications in Barcelona, February 2009 - September 2010

Invented, designed and implemented a proof of concept of gOTP, a novel two-factor authentication system which combined the robustness of One Time Passwords and the easily-remembered Graphical Passwords. The project was initially developed as a joint R&D Final Degree Project at UPC (see below) and Safelayer company, to become a product of the latter.

The implementation had two parts:

Computer Engineering, 2004-2009 at Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB), Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona (Spain)

Degree + MSC. Graduated with Honors in the final Degree project "A Secure Authentication System via OTP and Graphical Password"

Other Courses

You can see my recommendations on my Linkedin Profile (more available upon request).

I love photography and traveling.